Plutarch and His Contemporaries

Sharing the Roman Empire
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-68729-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 494 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 998 g

Reihe: Brill's Plutarch Studies

The volume puts into the spotlight overlaps and points of intersection between Plutarch and other writers of the imperial period. It contains twenty-eight contributions which adopt a comparative approach and put into sharper relief ongoing debates and shared concerns, revealing a complex topography of rearrangements and transfigurations of inherited topics, motifs, and ideas. Reading Plutarch alongside his contemporaries brings out distinctive features of his thought and uncovers peculiarities in his use of literary and rhetorical strategies, imagery, and philosophical concepts, thereby contributing to a better understanding of the empire’s culture in general, and Plutarch in particular.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jazdzewska, Katarzyna

Doroszewski, Filip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Contributors

Part 1 Residents of Empire: Politics and Civic Life

1 Plutarch’s Flamininus: A Roman Hero for a New Greek World

Jeffrey Beneker

2 Cattle in the Marketplace: The Abandoned Agora in Plutarch’s Life of Timoleon and Dio Chrysostom’s Euboean Discourse

Colin Bailey

3 Speaking to the People in Theory and Action: Plutarch’s Political Precepts and Dio of Prusa’s Assembly Speeches

Thierry Oppeneer

4 Avoiding Tyranny through Education: Plutarch’s, Dio Chrysostom’s, and Seneca’s Drugs for the Illness of the Roman Principatus

Andrea Catanzaro

Part 2 Among Philosophers: Debates and Disputes

5 “Cease Provoking the God, My Dear Planetiades”: How Plutarch Deals with Cynic Anti-Oracular Polemics

Wim Nijs

6 Plutarch and Epicurus

Richard Stoneman

7 The Wreck of an Ancient Titanic: Plutarch and Maximus of Tyre on Epicurean Pleasure

Geert Roskam

8 Plutarch in the Middle of a Conflict between Epictetus and Favorinus

Theofanis Tsiampokalos

Part 3 Facing the (Super)natural

9 Some Chemical Mirabilia in Plutarch and Apuleius: Platonist Piety, Natural Science, and Entertainment

Daniele Morrone

10 De fato of Ps.-Plutarch: Fate, Providence, Free Will

Paola Volpe Cacciatore

11 Artemidoro, Onirocritica 4.72 e l’ultimo sogno premonitore di Plutarco

Fabio Tanga

Part 4 Readers and Spectators

12 Plutarch, Seneca, and the Greek Tragedy

Giovanna Pace

13 Philoxeni in Plutarch and Athenaeus

Krystyna Bartol

14 Plutarch, Lucian, and the Debate on How to Write History: A Matter of Paideia?

Francesco Padovani

15 A Greek in a Roman Library

Katarzyna Pietruczuk

16 Plutarch and Pliny the Elder: Rome, Art, and Artworks

Eva Falaschi

Part 5 Uses of the Past

17 Aspects of Cultural Memory in the Imperial Age: On Some Local Arcadian Traditions in Plutarch, Pliny the Elder, and Pausanias

Maria Elena De Luna

18 Lycurgus of Sparta in the Imperial Age: Plutarch, Pausanias, and Lucian

Martina Gatto

19 Beyond the Limits of Biography: A Comparative Analysis of Plutarch’s Lycurgus

Iris Sulimani

20 Anecdotes and Rhetorical-Lexical Structures in Plutarch, Valerius Maximus, and Polyaenus

Serena Citro

21 Exempla for the Emperors: A Comparison of the Prefaces to Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta memorabilia and Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

Laurens van der Wiel

Part 6 Cultural Practices: Inhabiting and Subverting the Norms

22 One Body, One Mind: Friendship in Plutarch’s De amicorum multitudine and Lucian’s Toxaris

Laura Bottenberg

23 Permission to Speak? Cleobulina/Eumetis in Plutarch’s Symposium of the Seven Sages and Mary in the Pistis Sophia

Dawn LaValle Norman

24 The Incomplete Feminisms of Plutarch and Musonius Rufus

Tomohiko Kondo

25 Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis and Plutarch’s Quaestiones convivales: A Comparative Approach to the Banquet and to the Banqueters

Delfim F. Leão

26 Plutarch and Lucian on Symposia

Anna Ginestí Rosell

27 Plutarch and the Greek Reasons for Avoiding Pork by the Jews

Chiara Di Serio

28 A Gentleman’s Health: Plutarch and the “Age of Hypochondria”

Michiel Meeusen

Bibliography

Index Locorum

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Katarzyna Jazdzewska is a Classicist working on ancient Greek prose, specializing in ancient dialogue and imperial period literature (above all Plutarch and Dio Chrysostom). Her monograph Greek Dialogue in Antiquity: Post-Platonic Transformations was published in 2022 by Oxford University Press.

Filip Doroszewski is Assistant Professor of Classical Philology at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Poland. His recent publications include the co-edited volume Dionysus and Politics (Routledge, 2021) and a monograph on Nonnus' Paraphrasis entitled Orgies of Words (De Gruyter, 2022).

Contributors are: Colin Bailey Krystyna Bartol, Jeffrey Beneker, Laura Bottenberg, Andrea Catanzaro, Serena Citro, Maria Elena De Luna, Chiara Di Serio, Eva Falaschi, Martina Gatto, Anna Ginestí Rosell, Tomohiko Kondo, Dawn La Valle, Delfim F. Leão, Michiel Meeusen, Wim Nijs, Thierry Oppeneer, Pace Giovanna, Francesco Padovani, Katarzyna Pietruczuk, Geert Roskam, Richard Stoneman, Iris Sulimani, Theofanis Tsiampokalos, Laurens van der Wiel, Daniele Morrone, Fabio Tanga, Paola Volpe Cacciatore.